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Best Naval Aviation movies
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He had a camera man in his back seat filming what this still shot was captured from.
Probably a 1.6…day CAT, day Case I TRAP...like always. Unless he pulled the trigger…then it's all in Green Ink. How they sorted all of that out after "return to normal"…I have no idea. I probably never had the clearances to really know...
Standard air wing "scramble alert strike package"? One never knows.
Theory 1: Voice comm jamming or exploitation?
Theory 2: Someone said "We need to highlight ALL of the airplanes in the wing in this movie."
I'm jiggy with either...
Joe Kaposi
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Men of the Fighting Lady.
Flying respot?
Maintenance would love that. Negative 350,400 hours in the logbook. That plane could fly forever without any inspections required.
Hi Everyone, newbie civilian here.
Thanks for you service on this day before Veterans Day.
Its great reading what military pilots think about movies, i have a question about Naval Aviation rank heirarchy.
Flight of the Intruder, as well as Final Countdown, Bat 21, have been a few of my favorite movies,
Just watched Intruder again, and at the end there is something i have never understood.
Been around planes all my life, Boeing, MDC, general aviation, dad flew since he was 11, worked at NAS Whidbey for a NMCI contract etc, but never in the military.
In the movie, Danny Glover must play the CAG or the Air Group Commander, and Jake Grafton must be the squadron commander or leader, since Danny leads the meetings in the Ready Room, and Jake has that one guy come to him in the hanger deck about getting married and such.
If so, Why, at the end do they talk about Danny Glover getting his own ship and making Admiral? Never been in the navy, but isn't the flying part of the navy, separate from the sailing part of the navy?
Why would the CAG or Group Commander have right to being a Admiral or Captain of a ship?
Thanks for you service on this day before Veterans Day.
Its great reading what military pilots think about movies, i have a question about Naval Aviation rank heirarchy.
Flight of the Intruder, as well as Final Countdown, Bat 21, have been a few of my favorite movies,
Just watched Intruder again, and at the end there is something i have never understood.
Been around planes all my life, Boeing, MDC, general aviation, dad flew since he was 11, worked at NAS Whidbey for a NMCI contract etc, but never in the military.
In the movie, Danny Glover must play the CAG or the Air Group Commander, and Jake Grafton must be the squadron commander or leader, since Danny leads the meetings in the Ready Room, and Jake has that one guy come to him in the hanger deck about getting married and such.
If so, Why, at the end do they talk about Danny Glover getting his own ship and making Admiral? Never been in the navy, but isn't the flying part of the navy, separate from the sailing part of the navy?
Why would the CAG or Group Commander have right to being a Admiral or Captain of a ship?
Glover plays the part of the A-6 squadron CO. Jake Grafton is just a first (probably) tour pilot, crewed with a second (or third) tour Bombardier/Navigator in "Tiger".
In the time depicted, being a squadron CO, assuming you did well, was a "good path" to making CAG. CAGs, at the time, were post-command O-5s, and IF they did well there, could be selected XO of a CV…and if "did well" there… off to "deep draft" command of a ship (oiler, ammo ship, AFS, etc.). Do well there…off to "major command" of an aircraft carrier. It's a "Title 10, US Code" thing…only aviators (pilots or NFOs) can command aircraft carriers. Have no idea if the "afterward" in the movie has any relevance to the real persons involved at the time…but it plays well.
Yes…go see this.